Browsing by Subject "Education, Mathematics."
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF A NON-TRADITIONAL INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSE AMONG COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
(2014-12-12)Calls for comprehensive innovative curriculum and pedagogical changes to mathematics courses and introductory statistics courses have been documented within multiple national reports during the last several decades. In ... -
Pre-service teachers and statistics: Interrelationships between content confidence, knowledge, and attitudes; Pedagogical content knowledge; and teacher interest in professional development in statistics.
(2007)Instruments were used to gather data about the defined variables. Two preexisting statistics knowledge instruments were used as well as three pre-existing attitudes scales. One of the three attitudes scales measured two ... -
Preservice teachers' belief systems and attitudes toward mathematics in the context of a progressive elementary teacher preparation program.
(1999)By the time the preservice teachers had completed the elementary education coursework, they had significantly higher self-efficacy with respect to their ability to effectively teach mathematics. These students also reflected ... -
Problem solving dynamics: Students' nonroutine problem solving engagement. A case study of four ninth-grade mathematics students.
(2003)After examining the "big picture, " it became evident that over the course of this 16-week period, significant transitional moments existed, during which collaborations among the dyads and the group seemed to change, and ... -
A psychometric analysis of the Statistics Concept Inventory.
(2006)A clearer picture of student understanding emerges when the item analyses are combined with analyses obtained using IRT methods. In particular, the nominal response model appears to be able to shed light on persistent ... -
The relationship among language, classroom discourse, cognitive development, achievement, and vocabulary of developmental mathematics students.
(2001)The purpose of this research was to examine how focusing on language and classroom discourse impacts the cognitive development, achievement, and vocabulary development of college developmental mathematics students. Two ... -
The relationship among the cognitive development level, learning style, achievement, and retention of preservice elementary teachers in a content course in mathematics.
(1999)The purpose of the present study was to examine three ideas. First, the relationship between learning style preferences and the level of cognitive development of preservice teachers who are currently enrolled in a content ... -
The relative effects of massed versus distributed practice upon the learning and retention of eighth grade mathematics /
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Reopening the Case of Schema: A Topological Perspective
(2021-08-05)Abstract mathematical topics, like topology, can initially be challenging for students. Further, there is a limited amount of literature available for how undergraduate students learn topology concepts. This work aims to ... -
Small-group learning in a university precalculus course.
(2001)The experimental and control sections were compared on three hour examinations and a final examination that consisted mostly of multiple-choice questions. Large differences were not anticipated, due to the modest amount ... -
Synergistic argumentation in a problem-centered learning environment.
(2002)This research looks at argumentation in the whole-class sharing portion of a second grade problem-centered classroom learning environment in which making sense of mathematical ideas was the accepted norm. This research ... -
The Unconventional Thesis of an Unconventional Educator: A Heightened Performative Autoethnography
(2016-12-16)This is an unconventional thesis about the reflective look back at my first year of teaching. The purpose of the thesis is to advocate for future, new, and current teachers to start using the reflective practice to enhance ... -
Unpacking mathematical content through problem solving.
(2002)Current calls for reform of preservice teacher education include suggested changes in the mathematics content courses required for elementary education programs. One suggestion is the inclusion of more complex problem ... -
Using hermeneutic phenomenology to investigate pre-service secondary mathematics teachers' beliefs about mathematics and the teaching and learning of mathematics
(2013-11-25)This research used an interpretive paradigm and a hermeneutic phenomenology methodology to investigate matehmatical belief systems of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers enrolled in a small private mid-western ... -
Using technology to facilitate visualization in multivariable calculus.
(2003)A multiyear study was undertaken to examine the effects of the use of a computer algebra system (Mathematica) on student learning in multivariable calculus at the University of Oklahoma. The research was both quantitative ... -
Validation of a measure of teachers' efficacy and outcome expectations in the content domains of reading and mathematics.
(1997)Confirmatory factor analysis procedures failed to produce similar findings as the Rasch procedures. This was an interesting, but not entirely unexpected result. The lack of congruence between the results of these two ...